Personal Site Privacy Policy

1. A method, comprising: administratively changing a privacy setting of a portion of user information in a profile of a user stored at a server, the privacy setting editable by an administrator such that the privacy setting is not overridden by the user associated with the profile, the privacy setting defining rights of one or more third parties to view an item included in the profile of the user; presenting, to the user, a preview of the user's personal site as it would appear to a requester based on the user's selection of a relationship between the requester and the user, the user information in the preview defined at least in part by user-selectable privacy settings; receiving a request at the server, from a requester, to view user information on a user's personal site associated with the user; determining a relationship between the requester and the user; and providing from the server the item of user information to the requester based on the requester's relationship to the user and the privacy setting.

2. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: disabling the ability of the user to change a privacy setting of at least a portion of the user information.

3. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: modifying privacy settings associated with the user information, wherein the user does not have override capability over the privacy settings.

4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: adding new user information associated with the user accessible via the user's personal site, wherein the new user information is assigned a privacy setting.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: disabling the use of a portion of the user information for use with the user's personal site.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising: generating an access control list for a portion of the user information based at least in part on the relationship between the requester and the user.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the relationship between the requester and the user includes one of: only me, my manager, my workgroup, my colleagues, and everyone.

8. A method, comprising: sending a request to a server to view a user's personal site from a viewer at a client computing system, the request including an indication of a selected relationship to the user associated with the user's personal site from a preview tool at the user's personal site, wherein the viewer is the user; and receiving from a server, at the client computing system, a preview of the user's personal site as it would appear to a viewer having the selected relationship to the user, the preview including user data associated with the user, wherein the user data received is based at least in part on the selected relationship to the user and a privacy setting set by an administrator for a portion of the user data such that the privacy setting is not overridden by the user associated with the user data, the privacy setting defining rights of one or more third parties to view an item included in the profile of the user.

9. The method of claim 8 , further comprising: modifying the privacy setting of a portion of the user data from the user's personal site, wherein the viewer is the user, wherein the user has override capability over the privacy setting.

10. The method of claim 8 , wherein the relationship between the viewer and the user includes one of: only me, my manager, my workgroup, my colleagues, and everyone.

11. A system, comprising: a first client; a second client; and a server communicatively coupled to the first client and the second client, the server including one or more computer readable media having stored computer readable instructions that, when executed by the server, perform operations comprising: administratively changing a privacy setting of a portion of user information in a profile of a user, the privacy setting editable by an administrator such that the privacy setting is not overridden by the user associated with the profile, the privacy setting defining rights of one or more third parties to view an item included in the profile of the user; receiving a user's relationship selection, by the user, from a preview tool at the second client, wherein the user's relationship selection defines the relationship between the user and another person; presenting, to the user, a preview of the user's personal site as it would appear to the other person based on the relationship selection, the user information in the preview defined at least in part by user-selectable privacy settings; receiving a request, from a viewer at the first client, to receive user data at a user's personal site associated with a user; determining a relationship between the viewer and the user; and providing user data including the item to the client based on the relationship between the viewer and the user and the privacy setting.

12. The system of claim 11 wherein the computer readable instructions, when executed by the server, further perform operations comprising: modifying a privacy setting of a portion of user data in response to a request from the user at the second client, wherein the user has override capability over the privacy setting.

13. The system of claim 11 , further comprising a third client communicatively coupled to the server, wherein the computer readable instructions, when executed by the server, further perform operations comprising: receiving a change to a privacy setting from a privacy policy management page displayed at the third client, wherein the user does not have override capability over the privacy setting.

14. The system of claim 13 wherein the computer readable instructions, when executed by the server, further perform operations comprising: receiving new user data associated with the user from the third client.

15. The method of claim 1 , wherein the preview comprises a graphical display of the user's personal site as it would appear to a selected requester.

16. The method of claim 1 , further comprising, prior to presenting the preview to the user, receiving a user selection in a preview tool of a relationship between a requester and the user.

17. The method of claim 8 , wherein the preview comprises a graphical display of the user's personal site as it would appear to the viewer.

18. The method of claim 8 , further comprising: sending a second request to view a user's personal site from a viewer at a client, the request including an indication of a second selected relationship to the user associated with the user's personal site selected in a preview tool at the user's personal site, wherein the viewer is the user; and receiving, at the client, a second preview of the user's personal site as it would appear to a different viewer having the second selected relationship to the user, the preview including user data associated with the user, wherein the second preview is different from the preview.

19. The system of claim 11 , wherein the preview comprises a graphical display of the user's personal site as it would appear to the other person.

20. The system of claim 11 , wherein the other person comprises the viewer.